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Also the broadband penetration has largely improved in the past 6 months according to official figures you can read in different newspapers last week-end (Sunday Business Post for example). I think it’s something like 16% now (OK still poor but it’s a start).

No, they are projecting it is 16% which is still behind the EU average and is still shockingly poor. We should be at 30-40% if we want Ireland’s homegrown small businesses to do well on an Internation footing. We are still 3 years behind the rest of Europe. One thing to point out about the EU average is that it is getting easier to reach thanks to many of the poorer countries joining. Measuring against the main EU countries like France, Netherlands, the UK, Denmark etc you’ll see we are slipping away from them.

It really isn’t ecnouraging either than the new Green Minister is parroting what his predecessor was saying yet in opposition he savaged all this spin.

thanks for stopping by and commenting on this post. I’d love to point out interesting uses of Social Media in Dublin, Galway and/or Letterkenny. I did say in my post that in my post that I was likely to be missing things that I had overlooked.

Please feel free to suggest “Irish business using social media in interesting or successful ways” in Dublin, Galway, Letterkenny or any other parts of Ireland you can think of.

I am aware that Ireland’s broadband situation has improved and I noted it in my post. Having said that, we are still one of the worst countries in the OECD in terms of broadband speed and deployment.

No offence but you can’t seriously limit your point of view only to Cork businesses! The survey is about Ireland not only about a tiny portion of the country (don’t flame me my wife is from Cork )
A lot of things exist in Dublin too (by the way still the official Irish capital!!) and I am sure in Galway and Letterkenny too. I suggest that if you answer this survey seriously you use your connections to get more information from everywhere, then Ireland will be seen as a more vibrant and less gloomy country. Come on you can find better than Murphy Ice cream to represent a nation!
Also the broadband penetration has largely improved in the past 6 months according to official figures you can read in different newspapers last week-end (Sunday Business Post for example). I think it’s something like 16% now (OK still poor but it’s a start).
Also YouTube choosing Ireland for one of it’s european sub domain is a great sign of social network dynamism. Gavin Joyce is doing well with the Dotkick project too. So you see a lot of interesting things happens here

Here’s a link to the Ryder Cup case study we did last year. It’s a simple case study on how smaller players can punch above their weight online using simple tools like Wordpress:

Wordpress Case Study

Regards,

JohnP